Google Fiber Seen Among Broadband's Top 10 By 2022

Google's (GOOG) buildout of a superfast, fiber-optic Internet network will cost about $7 billion to pass roughly 8 million U.S. homes by 2022, Evercore Partners forecasts in a new report. Evercore analyst Ken Sena forecasts that Google will grab 3 million subscribers for its Internet service over a 7-9 year period. With 3 million customers, Google would rank ninth among today's broadband service ...

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